Reranking
Reordering an existing set of retrieved candidates by relevance to the question.
Initial retrieval01 · Eligibility02 · Refund timing
→Reorder candidates01 · Refund timing02 · Eligibility
In practice
For a refund-timing question, move the timing passage ahead of general application conditions.
What to check
Check whether the correct passage was retrieved first. Compare candidate order before and after reranking on representative questions.
Common confusion
Reranking cannot recover a missing candidate. Its scores do not establish truth or replace access and version filters.
Tell your agent
Record candidate order before and after reranking. Compare relevant-passage placement on the same questions, investigate missing retrieval first, and retain source, permission and version filters.